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Blackberry Smoke
You can call Blackberry Smoke’s music southern rock and you wouldn’t be wrong. Or you could call it country and you wouldn’t be wrong, either. But you would be selling both the band and its legion of fans short by trying to fit them solely into one genre. With influences that run the gamut from country to bluegrass to metal to gospel and yes, southern rock, Blackberry Smoke is more than the sum of its diverse parts.
“None of us have ever said, ‘Let’s be a southern rock band or a bluegrass band or a country band’,” Blackberry Smoke front man Charlie Starr explains. “We all love the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Stones and the Faces and Hank Williams and Bill Monroe. It’s not about what kind of music it is, as long as it’s good and it’s honest. When we get together it just sounds the way it does.”
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You can call Blackberry Smoke’s music southern rock and you wouldn’t be wrong. Or you could call it country and you wouldn’t be wrong, either. But you would be selling both the band and its legion of fans short. With influences that run the gamut from country to bluegrass to gospel and yes, southern rock, Blackberry Smoke is more than the sum of its diverse parts.
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Check out this video interview with the band: http://lifeinlansing.com/common-ground-2011/2088-common-ground-2011-blackberry-smoke
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A southern rock az Amerika déli államaiban kialakult redneck zenei stílus, amely 1960-1970-es évek fordulóján teljesedett ki. A rock&roll és a blues alapjaira épül némi countrys és folkos beütéssel. A zenében hangsúlyos az elektromos gitár és az ének. A dalokban gyakran elhangzik, hogy „a dél újra feltámad” - ezért a southern rock mindig élni fog.
